In around six years, the average duration of calls made from a fixed telephony line monthly shrank by around 1 hour, while time spent talking on the mobile phone registered a spectacular increase.

The average duration of calls initiated monthly from a fixed telephony line posted a dramatic decline in 2005-2010, from around 3 hours and 17 minutes in 2005, to 2 hours and 13 minutes in the first half of last year, according to the data provided by the communications regulatory authority.

The steepest decline was registered in 2008, when the average duration of monthly calls from the fixed phone decreased by over half an hour.

Communications minister Marius Bostan hints that it will take some time until the privatization of the stake that the state holds in Telekom România (former Romtelecom), because the authorities have not yet selected the appropriate method - sale or IPO. Furthermore, the minister says that he first of all wants to increase the value of the company, because it has a "fantastic" potential, and the company is not currently looking "the way it should". read more...

Chinese multinational Huawei, one of the largest telecom-gear makers in the world, plans to invest some 100 million euros in its global services centre in Bucharest until 2018 and, furthermore, to employ another 300 people by the end of this year. read more...

Romania has become, as of Thursday, the 54th country to have the famous YouTube video platform available in Romanian language, occasion for the local advertising companies and agencies to be able to address the target audience through some innovative models of video commercials. read more...